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...life, marking a shift from the post-World War II period. War veterans who returned to Harvard as undergraduates, hardened from years of fighting, were much older and less likely to accept the parietal rules, according to Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University.” But the matriculation of the Class of 1956 saw a more compliant student body. “The tone of the school was not as frivolous as it had been before the war,” says Keller. And because admissions...
...matter,” says Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’67. He explains that Wilson’s work was valuable not only in the field of phase changes, for which Wilson won the Nobel Prize, but had much broader applications for all of modern physics. It is a crucial component of our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—the strong nuclear force that holds quarks together within protons and neutrons, for which the most recent Nobel Prize in physics was awarded, Georgi says.In the seventies, Georgi used Wilson’s renormalization group...
...endowment and budget. Pusey considered his task as president to make Harvard “an academically stronger University by making it a more affluent one,” according to a 2001 book about the University’s history, “Making Harvard Modern,” by Morton and Phyllis Keller.BIG-BUDGET BEGINNINGSThe Class of 1956 witnessed only the very beginnings of Pusey’s ambitious fundraising drive—an effort that included the Program for Harvard College (PHC), which raised over $80 million, the equivalent of $575 million today.Though not formally announced until...
...Until recently Garcìa, who ran Peru between 1985 and 1990, was primarily remembered for overseeing one of the worst governments in the Andean nation's modern history. In trying to pull the country out of the economic doldrums, he printed extra money, nationalized banks, and not surprisingly, ended up with four-digit inflation. Those memories are only eclipsed by the rampant terrorism at the hands of the Shining Path, which forced his government to put 75 percent of the country under a state of emergency...
...Modern Iran's Persian forebears claim to have invented the game of chess, and that heritage seems to be serving it well in the evolving diplomatic game between Tehran and Washington...